Shirt envelope



June 25, 1935. L. BLUMENSTOCK SHIRT ENVELOPE Original Filed June 5, 1931 INVENTOR BY ATTORNEY Reisauecl June 25, 1935 Re.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SHIRT ENVELOPE Louis Blumenstock, Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to Spear Box Company, New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Original No. 1,868,458, dated July 19, 1932, Serial No. 542,344, June 5, 1931. Application for reissue June 15, 1934, Serial No. 730,788

2 Claims. (01. 229-87) My invention relates to improvements in shirt The flaps l5, l6, hinged at It, I6, are provided envelopes, and more particularly, has reference with corrugations, allowing the flaps l5, IE to to and is illustrated in the accompanying drawflex freely thereby accommodating themselves to ing in its application to an article of the class collars of different types. The lower flap I1 is described providing a pocket, sheath or partial also hinged at i8 and cut away at I9, 20, and is 5 closure within which a laundered shirt may be provided with a central button hole 2|, and corconveniently slid, retained in shape, and also rugations at 22, 23, to allow the lateral margins hung up, if desired, as well as being adapted for to adapt themselves readily to the type of collar convenient packing and delivery, the shirt for upon the shirt.

10 the most part being covered and protected against In the modifications shown in Figs. 3 and 4, l0 Boiling While handling. the lower flaps 24, 25, are cut clear of the en- Referring to said drawing, Fig. 1 illustrates in velope at 26, 21, respectively, but are hinged at perspective, with the lower part cut away, a suitthe base, as indicated at 28, and the same is prefable form of card envelope containing a shirt, and erably Vd, as indicated at 29, to render the same embodying an application of my invention. Fig. adaptable for varying types of shirt collars. l5 2 is a view of the envelope shown in Fig. 1 with While the foregoing illustrates various types the shirt removed. Fig. 3 is a modification of of shirt envelopes providing means for supportthe form shown in Fig. 1 showing the shirt in ing the shirt within the envelope, and means inposition, and Fig, 4, a similar view with the shirt dependently thereof for suspending the envelope omitted. with the shirt therein, it will be readily under- 20 The entire envelope is preferably made of light stood that various modifications may be made in weight card suitably glued together at their adthe construction and arrangement of 'parts with- J'acent edges, preferably at the back. A fiap l0 out departing from the spirit of the invention is adapted to enter beneath the collar or band of as claimed.

the shirt for supporting the shirt upright in the I claim: 25 envelope, and the holes I I, I I, serve conveniently 1. A shirt envelope having a front portion profor hanging the shirt contained envelopes previded with an opening adapted to clear the colliminary to packing or delivery of the same. lar of the shirt, means adjacent the bottom of At the front of the envelope, it will beobserved said opening for engaging the top button of the that it is cut away, terminating in a restricted shirt for preventing relative movement of said 30 lower portion at the center, adapted to receive shirt and said envelope in any direction. and the top front button of the shirt, the distance of means in combination with that part of the front the button hole 2| below the flap It being about adjacent said opening for supporting the collar equal to the distance of the top front button of in a plane at an angle to the plane of said front the shirt from the back button hole of the shirt portion. 35 hand when the shirt is laundered, so that the 2. A shirt envelope having a front portion proshirt is supported within the container at either vided with an opening adapted to clear the color both of these points when suspended by the lar of the shirt, means adjacent the bottom of holes II, II. said opening for engaging the top button of the Referring now more particularly to Figs. 3 shirt for preventing relative movement of said 40 and 4, it will be observed that instead 01 cutting shirt and said envelope in any direction, and the top front of the envelope as shown in Figs. flaps hinged to said front portion at opposite I and 2, the flaps l5, it are shorter and the flaps sides of said opening adapted to engage beneath 24, 25 longer, the former engaging snugly bethe sides of the collar for supporting the same neath the collar of the shirt giving it support in a plane at an angle to the plane of said front 45 and shape independently of any support provided portion. by the flaps 24, 25. LOUIS BLUMENSTOCK. 

